https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/02/21/keeping-hope-alive-at-bethlehem-university/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.2 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/02/21/keeping-hope-alive-at-bethlehem-university/#comment-53548 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:44:39 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20793#comment-53548 Peace is the ideal. It is what everyone wants. This is Christianity.
But throughout history the reverse has been happening where Muslims are concerned.
To believe in the Trinity invites a beheading. The comment in the Koran is against biblical truth.
The reality is that each day, in France two churches on average are desecrated.
The biggest problem is academics, politicians, media, churches who fail the community by not doing their homework.
Pope Saint John Paul II spoke of the need for prudence in dialogue. He also believed Europe would need a faith lived with integrity, as well as the army. The Dutch church is hardly a faith lived with integrity, having given into Secular Humanism. The Netherlands birth-rate is around 1.1, which means in four generations will be ten per cent of its status, while Muslims breed much faster. Most today would not be fazed by the statement “Islam is a religion of peace” as slowly the public have been doing a catch-up on what education was denied them as they grew up in colleges and schools.
The key figure is Mary, as Queen of Peace, and everyone should simply pray to her. She is hugely respected by Muslims.
In Zeitoun Egypt she arrived and allowed herself to be photographed and televised above the church of the nativity. What was a planned blood bath simply did not happen.
That means some more interest in the Medjugorje following, with its 40,000,000 pilgrims- to Mary Queen of Peace.

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